Loneliness

Mother Teresa on loneliness: there is a hunger for love, a hunger for God!  

"The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God."

Am I starving for love without even knowing it? If I am not a saint in heaven, the answer must be Yes. The holier we become, the more we realize how destitute, how hungry we are, hungry for the eternal love. 

So let me seek out the Bread of Life, the bread of love. There I can hear Christ say "I Thirst!" For you! He thirsts to give you life, to give you love!